Patio Party This Saturday at Bay View’s Vanguard

Patio Party This Saturday at Bay View’s Vanguard

The little sausage-beer-n-spirits bar steps away from its normal focus on casing to do up some Asian street food.

Vanguard Bar is up to some tricks this summer and they’re not related to sausage. Not technically. This Saturday, they’re throwing a patio party where the theme is Asian street food. The menu includes grilled pork belly skewers dipped in soy and fried garlic, Korean chicken wings, beef skewers with XO sauce, octopus topped with Szechuan chile oil and ponzu, and tofu skewers, also topped chile oil and ponzu. $10 for the dish. You can mix and match your proteins, and it comes with steamed rice, braised eggplant and bok choy. Wash it all down with a Hinterland beer. This is part of the bar’s Patio Party Series. July 18, 12-6 p.m.  As the Vanguard peeps would say, BE SOMEBODY.

Ann Christenson has covered dining for Milwaukee Magazine since 1997. She was raised on a diet of casseroles that started with a pound of ground beef and a can of Campbell's soup. Feel free to share any casserole recipes with her.